Potter and Potter Auctions: Puzzles, Games, & Playing Cards, 21926, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Date
February 19, 2026 - February 19, 2026
Page Size: 326 items in 14 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
210

Dans Les Airs: Jeu de Societe

Paris late 19th century USD 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
211

The Mysterious Planchette

British early 20th century USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
212

Group of 10 vintage aviation-themed games and a set of premium model planes

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
213

Group of 7 travel-themed vintage and antique games

USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
214

Group of 7 games and toys based on Platinum and Golden Age comic characters

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
215

Group of 3 antique games

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
216

Group of 3 fingerprinting / detective games

(New York) USD 50.00 - 150.00 Unknown
217

Group of 4 antique games

USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
218

Group of 9 antique and vintage military games

USD 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
219

Group of 28 boxed antique and vintage tabletop games

American ca. late 19th/early 20th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
220

Group of 5 vintage shooting gallery / target games

USD 125.00 - 225.00 Unknown
222

Group of 5 McLoughlin Bros. games, and one lid.

USD 150.00 - 300.00 Unknown
223

Group of 4 antique games

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
224

Group of 17 framed antique and vintage games and puzzles

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
231 CARTER, Charles

Carter the Great. Carter Beats the Devil

Cleveland ca. 1930 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
232 BOUCHERAT, A.

Billiards de Champions T.E.C.

Lyon 1934 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
233

Collection of Gambling Ephemera

1880s--1990s USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
234

[CHEATING]. Group of 12 vintage decks of marked and gaffed playing cards

Circa early to mid-20th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
235

Collection of Bone and Chinese Mother of Pearl Gaming Chips

Circa 19th/20th century USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
236

Five Playing Card-Theme Punchboards

Circa 1930s--40s USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
237

Punchboard Collection

Early 20th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
238

Collection of Over 100 Gambling-Related Film Stills

Hollywood ca. 1945--1980 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
239

All Jacks Cigarettes / Hard to Beat

1930s USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
241

[GAMBLING]. Three tintypes

Circa 1860-1880s USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
242

[GAMBLING & GAMES]. Group of 20 Stereoviews

V.p. ca. 1870s- early 1900s USD 200.00 - 400.00 Unknown
  • Forum Auctions
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    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 40
    Ramasvami (Kavali Venkata). A Digest of the Different Castes of India, 83 charming hand-coloured lithographed plates, Madras, 1837. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 50
    Watson (John Forbes) & John William Kaye. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations...of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, 8 vol., 480 mounted albumen prints, 1868-75. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 53
    Afghanistan.- Elphinstone (Hon. Mountstuart). An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, first edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates, a fine copy, 1815. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 57
    [Album and Treatise on Hinduism], manuscript treatise on Hinduism in French, 31 watercolours of Hindu deities, Pondicherry, 1865. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 62 Allan (Capt. Alexander). Views in the Mysore Country, [1794]. £2,000-3,000
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    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 76
    Bird (James). Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha and Jaina Religions..., first edition, lithographed plates, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1847. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 100
    Ceylon.- Daniell (Samuel). A Picturesque Illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants, of the Island of Ceylon: in twelve plates, 1808. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 123
    D'Oyly (Charles). Behar Amateur Lithographic Scrap Book, lithographed throughout with title and 55 plates mounted on 43 paper leaves, [Patna], [1828]. £3,000-5,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 139
    Gandhi (known as Mahatma Gandhi,) Fine Autograph Letter signed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Sevagram, Wardha, 1942, emphasising the importance of education in rural communities. £10,000-15,000
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    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 140
    Gantz (John). Indian Microcosm, first edition, Madras, John Gantz & Son, 1827. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 146
    Grierson (Sir George Abraham). Linguistic Survey of India, 11 vol. in 20, folding maps, original cloth, Calcutta, Superintendent Government Printing, 1903-28. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 195
    Madras.- Fort St. George Gazette (The), No.276-331, pp.493-936 and Index to all of 1834 at end, modern half calf, Madras, 2nd July - 31st December 1834. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, Feb. 19: Lot 205
    Marshall (Sir John) and Alfred Foucher. The Monuments of Sanchi, 3 vol., first edition, 141 plates, most photogravure, [Calcutta], [1940]. £3,000-4,000
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000
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    Sotheby’s: Winston Churchill. First edition of War Speeches, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1941. Set of 7 volumes. 5,500 USD.
    Sotheby’s: Andy Warhol, Julia Warhola. Holy Cats First Edition, Signed by Andy Warhol. 1954. 30,000 USD.